Through a Pool of Tears

In the darkness between life and death. A fragile paper world ravaged by war. A lo-fi sci-fi pleasure machine. An assortment of lethal weapons. A surround-sound poetic adventure. A multimedia dance odyssey. A kinetic coming-of-age story. A medieval revenge rom com. Retold in a Victorian girls’ dormitory. In the midst of the London riots. Violence abounds.

One solitary day. One remarkable woman. One man, no set, no props. One last brave, magical act. Two struggling writers. Two troubled toddlers. Two hopeless, hapless romantics. Three jilted brides. Four people, one lift. Five clowns. Six birds locked in a cage. Seven mismatched teenagers. Her life unravels. His shadow breaks free. Who will survive?

A crew of misfits. With murder on their minds. Rising from obscurity to power. Through a pool of tears. As the cake is baked before our eyes. Jaded invisible friends. Strange Taoist funeral rituals. The power-gorged elite. The ultra-cool streets of east London. A brilliant, unexpected plot twist. An upmarket brothel. A homoerotic dining experience. A live scientific experiment. A pig in a cage on antibiotics. Cross dressing, heartbreak and time travel. Some light puking. Straight from Weimar Germany. Starring Les Dennis.

Universal joys and sorrows. Exhilarating, hilarious and true. Gloriously unique. Deeply poignant. Still relevant today. Performed in a life-size wooden box. On the top deck of a bus. With a few surprises in store. With some gags thrown in for luck. With Antwerpian new wave direction. With a pizza delivery mid-performance.

On the coldest night Edinburgh has ever seen. Share the horror of his last hours. Dancing at the edge of an abyss. In the decade of decadence. In a crumbling Communist regime. In a ghostly fantasy world. Soaked in guilt. Armed with nothing but a pair of elbow pads. Love torn asunder. Rings exchanged and vows broken. A cucumber can kill a man. Bring your hankies!

Natasha founded Exeunt with Daniel B. Yates in 2011 and remains responsible for the overall editorial management of the site. Since March 2015, she's been joint lead critic for The Stage, along with Mark Shenton. She has also contributed to Time Out, the Guardian online, The Space, and The Independent, and she reviews books for The Observer. An occasional writer of fiction, one of her stories was shortlisted for the 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize.